General information
Mobile ad-hoc networks, pervasive computing, and sensor networking
are three prominent examples in which computation and
communication intermingle with the real world. This also changes
the role of semantics as compared to traditional information
systems, as now the physical environment provides a real world
semantics that immediately affects and interacts with the
processing of data and communication. This aspect of real world
semantics can help to more efficiently exploit the limited
resources in mobile environments by supporting better ways to give
statements on data, their quality, or enabling decisions on when
and how to process it. So far, the semantic aspects of mobile
environments have received insufficient attention from the
research community. The semantics community so far has not
considered the specific intricacies and resource issues of mobile
environments, while the mobile data management community has paid
only limited attention to semantic issues. In this workshop we
plan to address the interdisciplinary issues and bring together
the researchers from mobile data management and knowledge
management/semantics, distributed systems, and software
engineering to discuss the common interests, share and exchange
expertise and results, and appreciate each other's results and
contributions.
We encourage submissions in the areas of mobile (ad-hoc) networks,
sensor and peer-to-peer networks, and semantic data management
which specific focus on mobility. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
- Dynamic semantic integration and translation
- Semantic self-organization and learning
- Ontologies for mobile environments
- Data stream mining
- Application of semantic reasoning in mobile environments
- Query planning, execution, and optimization in mobile environments
- Data placement and storage in mobile environments
- Semantic data analysis for network traffic estimation/reduction and security
- Semantic indexing, caching, and replication techniques for mobile environments
- Enabling infrastructures to support semantics in mobile environments
- Middleware to support semantics in mobile environments
- Abstractions, SE methodologies, and techniques to support semantics in mobile environments
- Case studies
The workshop solicits formal papers that address semantic problems
specific to mobile environments. Additionally, position papers outlining
interesting new research domains and approaches would be welcome.
The selection of papers is based primarily on their potential to
influence future research. This influence can be exercised in many ways,
exemplified by but not limited to the following:
- Articulating a new perspective on semantics in mobile environments
- Describing new problems regarding semantics that arise from the specific
domain of mobile environments and how to address them
- Describing a novel approach to an existing problem that promises to
influence future research specifically in respect to mobility
- Describing a new problem that requires our attention
- Debunking an old perspective about semantics and mobility
Papers should not exceed 8 pages double column including figures
and tables in standard ACM
format. Papers have to present original, English-language
research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere must
be submitted electronically in printable PDF format (other formats
will be rejected) to the program co-chairs by email.
The paper abstract should contain title, author name(s), and
keywords.
Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the
program committee co-chairs. Notification and reviews will be communicated via
email.
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Paper submission:
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December 20, 2004, 11:59 pm CET (GMT+1), HARD
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Notification of acceptance/rejection:
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February 11, 2005 (changed!)
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Camera-ready copy due:
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March 6, 2005
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Program Co-chairs
Karl Aberer,
Manfred Hauswirth
Distributed Information Systems Lab
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Email: karl.aberer@epfl.ch, manfred.hauswirth@epfl.ch,
Program Committee
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe
Brian F. Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology
Skevos Evripidou, University of Cyprus
Arantza Illarramendi, Basque Country University
Vana Kalogeraki, University of CA, Riverside
Stephen Kimani, University of Roma
Manolis Koubarakis, TU Crete
Pedro José Marrón, University of Stuttgart
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina
Beng Chin Ooi, University of Singapore
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Chicago
Tore Risch, Uppsala University
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau
Marc Scholl, University of Konstanz
Rudi Studer, FZI Karlsruhe
Henry Tirri, NRC Nokia Research Center
Can Türker, ETHZ
Ouri E. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente
Two specialized workshops will be held in conjuction with MDM
2005:
Consistent with the MDM tradition, the organizers of the two
workshops have put together a common, single-track research
program consisting of high quality papers. Both the program
and the proceedings will be under MCMP05 with SME05 being a
special session. Further, there will be a single, common workshop
registration
for both workshops. This registration will entailed additional
discount for the registration of the MDM conference.
Both workshops will take place on Monday, May 9, 2005. Reports on the
activities and results of the workshops will be presented to the full
conference.
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